Ohio jail fights women COs' discrimination suit

Female officers say a new policy amounts to demotions because they're barred from most jobs overseeing male inmates

The Associated Press

AKRON, Ohio — The federal government has put its weight behind a discrimination lawsuit filed by female jail guards in Ohio who say a new personnel policy amounts to demotions because they're barred from most jobs overseeing male inmates.

The lawsuit was filed last year against the Summit County jail in Akron. The U.S. government's top civil rights attorney asked a judge last week to allow the government to join the case against the jail.

The women claim a personnel policy that went into effect this year limits job options because they are mostly assigned to oversee female inmates. Eighty-two percent of inmates and 80 percent of deputies are male.

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